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Working from home certainly has its perks \u2013 zero commuting, no distracting cubicle chitchat, and the ability to wear comfy sweatpants in lieu of office attire.<\/p>\n

It seems like many more U.S. residents are primarily working from home these days, including those who reside in the Valley of the Sun.<\/p>\n

New information published<\/a> in the 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the number of WFH-ers in Arizona equaled about 680,000 people last year, 20.7% of the state\u2019s working population of 3.28 million people aged 16 years and up.<\/p>\n

This marks an approximately 13% rise in the number of work-from-home employees from three years ago<\/a>. In 2019, roughly 248,300 people in Arizona did their nine-to-five from the comfort of home, then 7.6% of the 3.27 million workers in the same age group.<\/p>\n

Number of Americans working from home triples over three years<\/h3>\n

From 2019 to 2021, the number of people primarily working from home in the U.S. tripled according to the Census Bureau.<\/p>\n

About four years ago, 5.7% of Americans worked from home, equal to about nine million people. In 2021, that cohort shot up to 27.6 million people, about 17.9% of the working population who is 16 years and older. Last year marked the highest number and percentage of people working from home recorded since the ACS began in 2005.<\/p>\n

Amongst the states, the highest percentage of home-based workers in 2021 was found in the District of Columbia, where 48.3% of employees worked from their residence. This was followed by Washington (24.2%), Maryland (24.0%), Colorado (23.7%) and Massachusetts (23.7%).<\/p>\n

Among the metros with a million residents or more, the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metros were reported to have had the highest percentage of home-based workers in 2021, equaling roughly 35% of the population.<\/p>\n

\"See\r\n SEE ALSO:<\/span>Phoenix buyers may catch deals in summer 2023<\/a><\/strong>\r\n <\/div>\n

In 2019, about 6% of workers living in metropolitan areas worked from home and 5% resided outside of metros. Three years later, these percentages have increased in both areas, with the number of those working from home in metro areas rising to roughly 19% and jumping to 9% outside of metros in 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cWork and commuting are central to American life, so the widespread adoption of working from home is a defining feature of the COVID-19 pandemic,\u201d said Michael Burrows, a statistician in the Census Bureau\u2019s Journey-to-Work and Migration Statistics Branch, in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the number of people who primarily work from home tripling over just a two-year period, the pandemic has very strongly impacted the commuting landscape in the United States,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Workers spent fewer minutes commuting in 2021<\/h3>\n

Without the need to travel to a brick-and-mortar workplace, Americans are saving time on their commute.<\/p>\n

The 2021 ACS revealed that the average one-way travel time to work fell to 25.6 minutes in 2021, shaving off a couple of minutes from the average commuting time of 27.6 minutes in 2019. Last year marked the shortest commute times in the last decade.<\/p>\n

In 2021, 68% of workers drove alone to work, down from 76% in 2019, about 15 million fewer people.<\/p>\n

The number of workers who commute via public transport has depleted by half. In 2019, 5% of employees took transit to work, a group that shrunk to 2.5% in 2021, the lowest percentage of workers commuting by public transportation ever recorded by the ACS.<\/p>\n

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